Background
Irmelin Sandman was born in Helsinki.
Irmelin Sandman was born in Helsinki.
Her first book, Trollsång, was published in 1955. She has written picture books and novels for children as well as books for adults and poetry, and she also works as a translator and reviewer. Her books have been translated into 16 languages.
Sandman Lilius is also on the IBBY Honour List for 2002.
Among her best-known works is the large chronicle about the fictive town of Tulavall on the south coast of Finland, which she has described in different times and from the point of view of different people, in more than a dozen books